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MARK 1:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Mark 1:29Mark 1:31
“But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.”
Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her — the fever is introduced without drama; the household's need is presented matter-of-factly. The presence of Simon's mother-in-law implies that Simon is married, a detail Paul mentions in 1 Corinthians 9:5. The immediacy of telling Jesus communicates both the household's trust and the urgency of their need. The request is not formal or ritualized: they told Jesus about her is a simple report, and the healing that follows is equally simple. The healing of this unnamed woman is the first healing in Jesus' ministry, following immediately upon the first exorcism — the kingdom addresses both demonic bondage and physical suffering.

Church Fathers on Mark 1:30

First, it was right that the serpent’s tongue should be shut up, that it might not spread any more venom; then that the woman, who was first seduced, should be healed from the fever of carnal concupiscence.

Bede · 8th century · in Marc., 1, 7

He retired then as the custom was on the sabbath-day about evening to eat in His disciples' house. But she who ought to have ministered was prevented by a fever.

Theophylact · 11th century

For the fever means intemperance, from which, we the sons of the synagogue [ed. note: See St. Augustine on Ps 72, no. 4, 5, 'Ecclesia Socrus Synagogue.' The Church is called the daughter of the Synagogue in the spurious 'Altercatio Eccles. et Synagog.' (Aug. Opp t. viii, p. 19.) They word 'synagogue' is applied to the Church by Justin M. Dial, see Tryph, p. 160 (Ben.) Clem. Alex. Str. vi, 633.], by the hand of discipline, and by the lifting up of our desires, are healed, and…

Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century
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